Creativity keeps the right brain active, which, in turn, benefits left-brain thinking. It opens us up to new insights and innovations. It enriches our analytical abilities, expanding our tools for interpreting data and solving problems. It energizes us, making us more productive. And it makes everything more fun.
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I had the pleasure of serving as the 2018 corporate poet laureate of Lawless Research, a leader in market research. Peggy Lawless, CEO, had these kind words to say about our work together.
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I’m honored and delighted that Lawless Research has appointed me as their first corporate poet laureate. Lawless Research is a leader in market research, providing clients the business insights they need to make informed strategic decisions. I’m thrilled to be part of this new endeavor…
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Many thanks to Superstition Review for publishing my poem “Cosmology: Four Score” in its tenth anniversary issue, and congratulations on a decade on the literary scene to founding editor Patricia Colleen Murphy and the entire staff!
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Heliograph Communications is approaching two decades in business. It seems like a good time to look inward, reminisce, and ask why. How and why is it that I still feel so jazzed to help individuals and organizations advance their goals and make their visions reality…
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New to the idea of a writing coach? Read on to learn how coaching can help you develop your writing skills, expand your body of work, and get in touch with your unique voice. Johannah provides answers to some key questions: What is a…
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As someone once said, “Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.” (It was either Elvis Costello, Steve Martin, or Martin Mull; the Internet can’t agree.) The challenge of writing a band bio is translating one genre into another: music into writing, sound into words.…
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It doesn’t have to take a disaster to write a good poem. If you cultivate mindful openness, humility, and surrender, you can sustain your creativity under any circumstance.
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Try to catch yourself before you go into your usual reactions—and if you’re having trouble with that, try writing about it. Cry over the page. It can take whatever you have to give.
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I’ve always been a little bit uncomfortable answering the question “What is good writing?” Sure, it’s easy to cite technique: freshness of language, specific sensory detail, and the like. But, of course, it’s more than that. My first college writing teacher called this “plumbing the…
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